Regional Leader, Recovery Services

Vancouver Coastal Health • Vancouver, BC

6d • CA$55 - CA$79

About The Position

Come work as a Regional Leader, Recovery Services with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)! Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Regional Leader, Recovery Services to join the Junction Recovery team. Apply today to join our team! The Junction Recovery Lead provides technical assistance and implementation support to the network of Junction Recovery Community Centres, a community-based hub for individuals seeking or maintaining recovery from substance use. The role contributes to the development of an inclusive, culturally safe, and non-stigmatizing recovery-oriented environment that offers a range of services including peer support, group programming, individualized recovery planning, and system navigation supports. Working in alignment with the Junction model and provincial priorities, the Recovery Lead is accountable for planning, implementation, evaluation, leadership, and continuous improvement, ensuring consistency and quality across all Junction sites. Fostering strong partnerships with Junction teams, community organizations, and people with lived and living experience is a key role. The Recovery Lead provides guidance and support to multidisciplinary teams, contributes to program planning and refinement, and supports integration with substance use services and counselling supports.
As a Regional Leader, Recovery Services with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:
Provide organization-wide leadership in regional program planning, ensuring alignment across strategic and service planning with the Ministry of Health, PHSA, VCH, PHC, and other key partners.
Coordinate and evaluate strategic and operational planning for specific population groups within the VCH and PHC regions.
Act as the strategic liaison across the care continuum, leading others toward advancing provincial, VCH, and PHC program goals. The Regional Leader communicates the organizational visions and fosters collaboration and commitment.
Act as the key representative in working groups and committees to ensure alignment with regional program priorities.
Guided by a population-based approach, align the development, delivery, and evaluation of services to meet the needs of the VCH/PHC population at every life stage, ensuring a high-quality, safe, integrated, and comprehensive continuum of care.
This work is framed within VCH’s commitments to our pillars of Indigenous Cultural Safety, Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Planetary Health.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in health administration, Public Health Administration or other relevant discipline, plus seven (7) to ten (10) years’ recent, related experience in progressively responsible positions in a large, complex care organization including demonstrated ability to manage large-scale project(s), or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Proven skills as an effective leader in an interdisciplinary matrix reporting environment.
• Expertise in strategic planning, systems integration, and cross-functional collaboration to develop and implement strategies across the full scope of the regional program.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project, change management, and evaluation principles and methodologies, with the ability to coach team members on these skills.
• Broad knowledge of clinical theory and practice, person-centered care, and a population health approach.
• Broad knowledge of health care disciplines and their roles within their respective health care environments.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems efficiently and resourcefully.
• Exceptional analytical skills and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrated organizational, administrative, facilitation, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and engage others effectively, both verbally and in writing, at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute complex projects with stringent timelines and budgets.
• Demonstrated ability to work with various word-processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate consensus among diverse interest holders, fostering collaboration and shared decision-making to achieve common goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide organization-wide leadership in regional program planning, ensuring alignment across strategic and service planning with the Ministry of Health, PHSA, VCH, PHC, and other key partners.
• Coordinate and evaluate strategic and operational planning for specific population groups within the VCH and PHC regions.
• Act as the strategic liaison across the care continuum, leading others toward advancing provincial, VCH, and PHC program goals. The Regional Leader communicates the organizational visions and fosters collaboration and commitment.
• Act as the key representative in working groups and committees to ensure alignment with regional program priorities.
• Guided by a population-based approach, align the development, delivery, and evaluation of services to meet the needs of the VCH/PHC population at every life stage, ensuring a high-quality, safe, integrated, and comprehensive continuum of care.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan
• Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families
• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers
• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior